Holy crap, she floats!

bye bye dirty-ass boat yard.

The Buckman Bridge. This is the kind of bridge I like, I fit under it with 15' to spare.

Naval Air Station Jacksonville's Marina. Aviator's driving boats, it sends chills up my spine.

Downtown Jacksonville coming into view.

A little closer to Jacksonville you can see the Fuller Warren Bridge (I-95) with the railroad bride behind it.

My arch-nemisis; the Main Street bridge downtown Jacksonville. This time the motor didn't stall mysteriously and the bridge went up in a timely fashion. 3rd time's the charm.

No fear of dismasting this time through.

Doesn't seem so bad from this side.

The Hart bridge is next.

Alltel Stadium home of the Jaguars

A couple of Military Sea Lift Command ships parked between the Hart and Mathews bridge.

Big boat.... what's it doing???

Oh, it's taking up two thirds of the river.

The Tallyrand terminal. The black boat now turned down river and headed away from me with it's swarm of tugs, now the Orange ship is getting under way.

beware the attack tug

That's about 50k-70k tons of orange ship. And it's catching up.

Oh boy, it's a fun ship.

Approaching the Dames Point bridge.

It's coming right for me.

It passed. There's not pictures of it next to me, because the pressure wave from it's hull hit my keel and shook things up pretty well.

The USS Gettysburg in drydock. And I thought my paint job was a pain in the ass.

Safely in the intra coastal water way (Pablo Creek) almost home, no more big boats.... time for a cocktail.